100+ Premium WP Plugins You Absolutely Must Have!

Last Updated on April 29, 2016

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In today’s post, we will explore 100+ premium and some free must have WP plugins categorized under social, security, e-commerce, sliders galleries, speed optimization, SEO optimization, comment and form builders and much more. Just take a look at table of contents.

Who doesn’t love WordPress? According to Wikipedia, WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. This is how popular WordPress is. From a tiny nice blog for yourself to a professional complete E-commerce site for your company, WordPress rules the Web.

WordPress is no longer just a blogging platform when it comes to its features. Talk about new and exciting functions- and it hasn’t stop evolving yet!

So, what exactly does WordPress must have to transform it into a fully-fledged functional site? If your guess is plugins, you’re absolutely correct!

List of 100+ WP Plugins You Have To Install!

These Premium WordPress Plugins and some free will make all the difference in your website. You will have more security, easier content management, conversion will be higher and of course your WordPress website will look amazing. There is something for every aspect of your website and blog. So let’s begin!

Social Plugins

Social media is one of the crucial components of online marketing. So, choosing the best social plugins for your WordPress site is important. From simple to richly featured, below are some of the best WordPress plugins for social media.

Social Network Tabs For WordPress combines all of your favorite social network profiles & feeds into slick slide out or static tabs. Each social network tab is loaded using AJAX only when required, making the plugin very fast loading!

We are using this plugin ourselves, because it looks really great and it allows visitors to see total number of shares in a beautiful way. With this plugin you can use up to 20 of major social networks and encourage readers to share your content.

There are 19 templates, 12 display locations, 4 button display styles, 9 counter styles and after share actions you can add to your website. You can also add social media sharing to images and have social fans counter added. Check the full feature list here.

With SocialBox you can add a widget to your sidebar, that will help you increase social following as well as increase brand trust if you have a healthy following.

We are using similar feature ourselves, because for the first time visitors, when they see 1WD has more than 200,000 followers, they take a notice that this website is being trusted by many other people.

There is support for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Dribbble, Forrst, Youtube, Vimeo, Mailchimp, Pinterest and more. You can either display following for each of these social networks as well as the total number of followers.

Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin is a fantastic new way to engage visitors to your WordPress blog by adding the ultimate Lightbox featuring social media buttons (Facebook Like, Facebook Send, Pinterest ‘Pin it’, Twitters ‘Tweet This’ and now LinkedIn, StumbleUpon & Tumblr) as well as Facebook or Disqus Comments!

Social Traffic Pop combines 4 of the most powerful social media tools to make one of the best social media marketing tools ever. Social Traffic Pop builds on everything that made the original Facebook Traffic Pop such a hit and takes it to the next level.

Ultimate Social Deux is a plugin that gives you 10 popular custom-styled social media sharing buttons with counters.

It comes with the following features:

Multiple display options through easy placement options or shortcodes

Works with Visual Composer

Works with WooCommerce

Works with Easy Digital Downloads

Works with Jigoshop

Works with Aesop Storytelling Engine

E-commerce Plugins

More and more people are buying things online so it is a great idea to add e-commerce functionalities on your site. With big names such as Amazon and eBay already doing great business, the web has evolved to become a great platform for product and business exposure. Good thing WordPress can now integrate e-Commerce plugins. The following are some of the best e-commerce plugin you use for your business site.

WooZone Report is a cool plugin, that you will want to use if you promote Amazon products in your WooCommerce shop. You will be able to keep track of the Amazon products and see how many views, how many products were added to cart and redirected to Amazon. You can receive reports straight in your inbox.

Some of the features:

SEO optimization – you can optimize and bulk import hundred of products from Amazon to your WooCommerce store

Automatically spin content when you are importing Amazon products to be able to rank this content better on search engines

WP e-Commerce Car/Parts Filter Plugin is the best plugin for a vehicle or vehicle parts website. With this plugin, the administrator can show filter plugin on the sidebar or footer widget. He can also add car models, products at the backend.

The WooCommerce e-Commerce Bundle Rate Shipping allows you to provide special bundled shipping rates when a customer purchases multiple items. The plugin is designed to be flexible, so you can define bundled shipping rates based on the shipping destination, the categories of the products being sold, or their shipping class.

WP E-commerce Authorize.Net is a WordPress Plugin which allows the WP e-Commerce Store owners to accept credit cards. It can take less than 5 minutes to set up. This is, by far, the quickest way to integrate Authorize.net.

It comes with the following features:

Easy to integrate Authorize.net payment to your WordPress site

Includes other payment gateway such as ChronoPay, Google Wallet, Paypal Express, SecurePay

Friendly Manual Order Processing for WP E-Commerce provides an easy-to-use and flexible way for you or your client to process orders directly from the WordPress back end without having to go through the payment process necessary on the front end of the site.

It comes with the following features:

Easy to create a manual order

Display online sales details

Apply discounts to order

Quickly add shipping amount

Manage stocks

Sliders

Sliders provide a great way to display images, videos or other content in an engaging way. If your theme doesn’t have one built-in or you would just like to add something a bit more exciting then take a look at these premium plugins.

This plugin is the most popular WordPress slider plugin with over 2 million downloads, 500,000 active installs, and 250 five star ratings. There are 4 different slideshow types – Flex Slider, Nivo Slider, Responsive Slides and Coin Slider. Check out their website to see live demo.

With Metaslider you will be able to create responsive and SEO optimized slideshows in seconds. You also can crop images, drag and drop reorder slides, preview slides within admin panel and configure your slideshow a lot.

RoyalSlider is an easy-to-use jQuery image gallery and content slider plugin with animated captions, responsive layout and touch support for mobile devices. For its menu, you can use thumbnails, tabs or bullets. Use it as image slider, slideshow, HTML content slider, gallery, banner rotator, video gallery, carousel or even presentation.

Slider Revolution is currently the top-selling plugin on Codecanyon. It is widely-used by theme authors on Themeforest. It is a responsive (mobile friendly) or full-width slider with must-see-effects. It also keeps or builds your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines).

LayerSlider Slider Plugin is a premium multi-purpose slider for creating image galleries, content sliders, and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects, even from your WordPress posts and pages. It uses cutting edge technologies to provide the smoothest experience that’s possible, and it comes with more than 200 preset 2D and 3D slide transitions.

Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress in the market. The slider is fully responsive and mobile-ready. It provides 150+ options, 100+ possible transition effects, from simple ‘fade’, ‘slide’ or ‘swipe’ effects to more complex ‘slice’ effects, 15+ skins and much more.

Soliloquy is a very popular WordPress slider plugin, which is paid, but now there is also available free and lite version of this plugin. What makes this plugin special is that it is really simple to add sliders wherever you want with just a few clicks.

By utilizing custom post types, this plugin allows you to create as many sliders as you want with as many images as you want. You can do all of this with just a few clicks.

Features:

Sliders are completely responsive with touch enabled swiping

SEO optimized with ability to customize alt and title tags for your images

Smart JS/CSS loading so that assets of Soliloquy only load where the slider plugin is present

Gallery Plugins

Gallery is a cornerstone of many websites today, allowing you to showcase pictures, illustrations, videos and more. If you’re looking for the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress to help you display your images for maximum effects on your blog or website. The following I listed are the best WordPress gallery plugins that will surely blow your mind.

This plugin has been around for a very long time, it has over 12 million downloads and it has over one million active installs. One red flag, is that it has received quite a bit 5-star and 1-star ratings, but still active installs are the highest ever seen on WordPress repository for gallery plugin.

This plugin provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing big amounts of images. You can:

This is one more plugin similar to Justified Image grid, but functionality and design preview look different. Live preview for Essential grid is really great, since they have collected all the best user works, you can use as base for your own designs.

Plugin also has lots of included skins you can use to display any content on grid like portfolios, price tables, service listings, product sliders, video grids and more.

You can easily import or export your grid, skin or meta date later to use for another WordPress installation.

This plugin aligns thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, just like Google image search.

With this plugin you can make your galleries stand out in a beautiful and unique way, check live preview to see how it looks like.

This plugin will take existing WordPress galleries and display them, the way you want. You can alternatively load images from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram or use NextGen (image manager) as a source for images. You can also pull image RSS feeds and videos from Youtube or Vimeo and much more.

You can also control every aspect how the gallery will be displayed, there are lots of options. You will also get 87 pages of PDF documentation to learn how to use this plugin.

This plugin allow readers to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox overlay effect, which is optimized for mobile devices. It has more than 100,000 active installs and have received 250 five star ratings.

A responsive and filterable portfolios with ease on your website. Media Grid comes with masonry layout; it is designed to adapt each portfolio to any situation and mobile optimized for responsive themes.

Simple 3D Coverflow is a fully responsive media 3D coverflow WordPress plugin that allows you to display media content with an unique original layout from a 3D perspective. It’s perfect for any kind of presentation, for anyone that wants to deliver a great impact on their visitors.

It’s another great gallery plugin that comes with a horizontal flow, vertical flow and classic grid. Especially helpful when you use both portrait and landscape images at the same gallery. Ideal for presenting your photographs and really close to the way images are presented in Flickr.

This plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.

Mikado Grid Gallery is a gallery for WordPress based on random grids with a lot of features. It’s responsive and images will adapt with a nice and smooth animation when the browser is resized. You just need to decide width (also percentage) and height and Mikado will create a random grid inside the rectangle.

It comes with the following features:

Fully responsive and fluid layout

Dynamic filters and filtering animations

Size of the gallery, width and height. The width can be in percentage so it perfect for responsive sites

Margin between images

5 Lightboxes

WordPress widget

Multiple galleries on same page

Security And Backup WordPress Plugins

WordPress is pretty secure against hacker attacks, but since WordPress is being used by 20% of all world websites, you should take security precautions nevertheless. Better be safe than sorry, right?

All websites should have regular backups, in case something bad happens, but other things are just like icing on cake.

Set database or full backups to get all your images, themes, plugins, database to a safe place

Offsite cloud storage – when site goes down, you don’t want your backup to be on that same server, so it’s useful to send your backups to places like Amazon S3, Dropbox, FTP or email. You get 1GB of BackupBuddy storage space, so you can save at least databases safely there

Scheduled backups and email notifications

Server tools allowing you to take a look at your server settings and capabilities

Malware scan – check your website against all the major blacklist checks. There is also database scan & repair for common issues.

Exclude files & tables you don’t want to backup (in case you have very high resolution images or videos you don’t want to backup with every backup)

and more..

Backupbuddy isn’t free, but if you are looking for high quality and reliability, and you can pay a little for that – BackupBuddy is the top choice.

Preview how BackupBuddy looks from inside.

BackupBuddy has several payment options:

(for all versions you will get 1GB of BackupBuddy storage space and 10 iTheme Sync sites)

297$ for lifetime usage, unlimited site backup, lifetime plugin updates and one year of support forum access

150$ per year (developer option) for unlimited site backup, 1 year of plugin updates, 1 year of support

100$ per year (freelancer option) for up to 10 site backup, 1 year of support and plugin updates

80$ per year (blogger option) for up to 2 site backup, 1 year of support and plugin updates

This is another plugin created by iThemes, they also have created BackupBuddy mentioned before. iThemes Security is a premium and comprehensive plugin, including all the things you will ever need to secure your website.

This is the most popular free plugin on WordPress repository and with over 2.4 million downloads, more than 400,000 active installs and 1400 5-star ratings is a good choice.

UpdraftPlus allows you to backup your data to the cloud to places like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive and much more. You can later restore this backup with a single click.

They have more useful features like:

site duplicator & migrator, with which you can copy sites and move them to new location

schedule backups – no need to remember if you have made a backup, just set a schedule and automatically backup your website every day, week or month. You can also have separate schedules for files and databases.

good reporting allowing you to see the status of backups and when the next backup is scheduled. You can receive these reports right in your inbox.

Preview, how Updraft looks inside.

There is also a premium version of Updraft, with additional addons, upgrades and support. Compare free and premium version here.

Login Lockdown is a simple plugin that records the IP address and time of every failed login attempt. Usually hack attempts rely on breaking into your website admin area buy inputting lots of password lists to guess the password. This plugin locks IP out for 1 hour after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes.

This handy security plugin lets you hide the fact you are using WordPress making it harder for anybody to breach your security.

You can use the plugin to control access to PHP files, which will protect your site from almost 90% of SQL-Injection and XSS attacks, which are caused by accessing PHP files directly. This means you can install unsafe plugins without worrying about security.

List of plugin features:

block direct access to PHP files

CSS and HTML minify

get reporting on new vulnerabilities and potential attacker details (IP, username etc.)

This plugin allows you to perform 35+ security tests including brute-force attacks. It will automatically scan your website for security vulnerabilities and holes, and you will receive notifications via email.

Smart Security Tools is a powerful plugin for improving security of your WordPress powered website. Plugin contains collection of tweaks and tools for extra security protection along with Security Advisor that can help you determine what needs to be done.

WP-Lens – Security and Analysis is the ultimate plugin for WordPress security analysis on your current theme and WordPress installation. WP-Lens combines a variety of checks and mechanisms that give you a clear picture of your current state of security and installation.

It comes with the following features:

Check for account named admin

Determines if the default table prefix is being used

MySQL DB password strength

MySQL DB username strength

Looks to see if admin users authenticate over SSL

Checks to see if the template editor is enabled.

Checks if plugins can be added/edited/removed through the admin

Checks if WordPress is up-to-date

Checks if you are a plugin hoarder

Blogspam analysis

Database Query analysis

Image analysis checks

File permissions on certain directory’s

Other useful WordPress and Security Hardening information

Speed Optimization – Responsive, Mobile Support Plugins

As we know optimization of website is very important as our visitor don’t want to wait for the site to load or just leave because there is no way to get support. In today’s world website has to be mobile friendly. So here are some plugins that can help you achieve that in no time.

We are using W3 Total Cache on 1WD, because it really helps to improve the speed your website loads. This plugin is a must have on any high trafficked WordPress website, because of it’s CDN (content delivery network) integration.

There is up to 10x improvement on overall site performance, when W3 Total Cache plugin is fully configured. Page load speed is very important, because it improves user experience and helps you rank higher on search engines. There are many more features like catching of minified CSS, Javascript, feeds, search results and more. There is also a mobile support.

WPTouch helps you make your website fully responsive, it will help even for responsive themes, because they usually don’t work well with third party WordPress plugins you install. WpTouch claims to be up to 5x faster than desktop or responsive themes, because their mobile solution is 100% CSS.

This plugin reduces file sizes for images in WordPress using lossless methods and image format conversion. It’s important to keep file size low, because the faster it takes to load your pages the more visitors will stay on page and you will also rank higher in search engines. EWW Image Optimizer compresses JPG and PNG files without any loss on image quality.

There are so many benefits to having smaller image file size, read more on their plugin page.

SEO Optimization Plugins

Another important subject. SEO optimization is important as this is our ticket to top of search engines. Here are a few great plugins that will make your life easier when SEO optimizing your website.

1WD is using this plugin every day to optimize our posts and website for SEO.

Every WordPress website should have this plugin installed if you want to be well optimized for search engines and Google. With this plugin you can optimize every page, post and overall website optimization, including XML sitemaps.

This plugin will also help you to understand how well each post is optimized and how it will look in Google. It is a very, very helpful SEO plugin – definitely a must-have.

Use this plugin with precaution: this plugin won’t be great for high quality blogs, but if you want to have more content on your site, or be able to republish original content to get more good backlinks, you can use this.

WordPress Auto Spinner rewrites existing content by replacing most of the text with synonymous words and phrases. This is a popular plugin on CodeCanyon, check more of it’s features to understand if you want to use it. If you are into building SEO sites, you might be interested trying this plugin out. I wouldn’t recommend it for your company website, since the content won’t be readable for real visitors, but only help you rank well on Google.

Rankie is a WordPress rank checker plugin, that helps to keep a close eye on each keyword position on Google. This plugin will update keywords ranking positions daily and generate handy reports for you. You can get these reports in daily email delivered straight in your inbox.

You can also use Rankie’s keyword research tool which generates keyword list that other people are using to search for topics which interest you. Check Rankie’s plugin preview video to learn more.

YARPP comes with a lot of features like cached related posts, adding related post in RSS feed.

Main features:

Create a variety of native units, including Content Recommendation or In Feed display

Make money by displaying sponsored content, at the bottom of your posts, in the sidebar, or both.

Easily promote your product or service on thousands of blogs and websites.

Advertisers are now able to bid by CPC and/or CPM

Support for more granular advertiser targeting such as IAB category and geo-targeting by DMA

Comment And Form Builder Plugins

If you have a blog an important feature is having a comment section below your posts. For every site however there is importance to have a contact form. Check these plugins for building forms and comment sections.

Gravity Forms is a well known plugin, because it allows to create WordPress forms easily and quickly. Anything form related – Gravity Forms can do it. Create order forms, customize content and style, even add advanced fields, like file uploads.

Disqus is a free comment system, that replaces your WordPress comment system with Disqus comments. Since many websites are using Disqus (more than 200,000 active installs), it is already widely recognized.

Its best feature is its connection with a large discussion community where commentators can keep track of their comments across the web encouraging them to comment more.

There are more than 20 field types you can choose from, making custom data management and collection real easy and simple. Make surveys and collect necessary data from your clients without any issues now! Visit their site for more details.

Ads and Affiliate Marketing Plugins

You can do almost everything on your website. If you want to advertise affiliates of yourselves these plugins below are your saviors.

Ninja Popups is great plugin to convert website visitors into qualified leads, by getting them to subscribe to your email list. This plugin supports all the main (and not so well know) email marketing providers. It has all the features you would expect in a good popup plugin.

Key features:

Exit Intent – when visitor tries to exit the website, you can have a popup that appears. This is a less intrusive way to generate leads.

You can set popup to show after visitor has scrolled XX% on the page

You can set popup to show after X seconds visitor has been inactive (no mouse or keyboard actions)

There is google analytics event tracking integration

A/B test popups to find out the best converting one

Customize the popups just the way you want, there are many premade designs included

Social network and newsletter locker – lock the page until visitor subscribes or follows you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn or Pinterest

Great marketing tool, that allows to direct visitors to take desired action.

With this plugin, you can show a bar on top of your website, that you can use to promote your product, special post or drive more email subscribers to your list. We are using this tool on 1stWebDesigner too from time to time.

HelloBar is really advanced, because it helps you to customize the bar, and A/B test button, button text, content text, font, size and colors.

If you have a blog and want to have and manage ads yourself, instead of using 3rd party services like BuySellAds, you might consider this plugin.

Adsanity lets you pick between two custom widgets – one is for displaying single ads, another for showing ad groups and rotate them. You will also be able to keep statistics on views and clicks on each ad, so you can quickly see how ads are performing.

For developers, there are also actions and filters included, that let them customize and add to the AdSanity functionality.

Membership Plugins

You want to offer more for you members, but don’t know how? These plugins are your answer!

Create users easily, have content restrictions and member directory with UserPro plugin.

UserPro will allow you to start your own user community, create profiles and open registration for new users in minutes! You will be able to sync UserPro with WooCommerce, BuddyPress and BBPress as well as integrate with email auto-responders like Mailchimp, Aweber and Campaign Monitor.

With this plugin you will be able to:

add content restriction to your site by role, verified accounts or specific logins

have user badges and achievements; have following, followers for user accounts

have social connect and integration (1 click auto signup/sign-in)

have beautiful design to your newly created community right outside the box. Design is fully responsive, there are 5 premade skins, SEO friendly and available in multiple languages

If you are in need of creating a community or upgrading existing one, you should check out UserPro live preview, to see if it’s for you.

Plugins With Misc Functionality

With this plugin you will be able to add an audio play at the top or bottom of your website. Audio player is fully HTML5 audio engine powered and will run on all the mayor browsers and mobile devices.

It supports audio from places like Soundcloud, Official.fm and you can upload your own Mp3 files. Comes handy if you are doing audio interview or simply want to create a music page on your site. View the live preview to understand if this plugin is for you.

Use this plugin to easily setup and customize your coming soon, under construction or maintenance pages. It comes handy whenever you are upgrading your WordPress installation or plugins, so your visitors don’t see a broken page if anything goes wrong.

It is also a great placeholder if you are only about to unveil your new product and want to set the deadline to bring excitement around the launch. You can add your social media profiles and email newsletter subscribe box, if you want. Check the live preview to see what this plugin is capable of.

Have you ever wanted to display your About Company area with style? With this plugin you can. You can add the images, customize the number of columns, image shapes, hover effects and add special styles like grayscale, image borders and shadow styles.

There are lots of premade templates included, but the best thing is that you can customize whatever you want quickly and without touching any code. Check the live preview for more.

With this plugin you will be able to make your WordPress back-end beautiful. There are 30 premade admin themes and you also have an option to create your own design. You can customize basically everything like – admin menu, buttons, typography, forms, background colors, branding etc.

This plugin will be great if you have users who register on your site and you want to white-label and customize the branding. You can also create a custom branded login theme. Check their live preview (username:demo, password:demo) for more details.

This is the most popular WordPress plugin on CodeCanyon, as it is being used by more than 500,000 websites.

Visual Composer is a drag and drop page responsive page builder plugin with frontend and backend editors. The best thing is that you can use it for any WordPress theme.

If you don’t prefer to always work from NotePad, you will really appreciate this website builder, that will save lots of your time, because you won’t even need to touch a code.

There are lots of functionality this plugin has, and there are lots of video tutorials to allow you how to use Visual Composer. You can do so much with it, and that’s why it is so popular. Check out their live demo here.

By the way, another popular plugin is this addon plugin for Visual Composer you might want to check if you get this plugin.

UberMenu is a very powerful and responsive mega menu WordPress plugin. It works well with WordPress 3 menu system, so it’s easy to start creating highly customized and powerful mega menu configurations.

It is important to note, that UberMenu looks great on different devices, it is fully responsive. It is also touch-enabled making it intuitive to use on touch screens.

There are so many customization and functionality you will have with this plugin, make sure to check the live preview and their feature list to see if this plugin is for you.

Create as many maps as you want with interactive and colored markers, countries or regions.

With this plugin you will be able to show hundreds of different kinds of maps like:

a map of entire world

a map of continent or a sub-continent

a map of country

a country divided by its regions

a state in the United States

You can add highlight regions to the map and display them either as regions (color whole region) or as markers (colored bubble). You can also add a tooltip or action to highlighted active regions and customize lots of other things.

Manage your WordPress posts with thumbnails just the way you want with just a few clicks. Special Recent Posts plugin will be great for web magazines as it comes with more than 120 customization options. Check out their official website to find out more.

Some of the features are:

fully responsive layout – looks great on all devices

advanced post filtering techniques, post content display as well as custom CSS editor you can use to write your custom CSS rules to apply to the design

This plugin is a great tool to let people book your service online. Bookly will be the best for online companies, who need their visitors to do reservations through websites.

Every person who wants to book your service will be lead through clear 5-step booking process. No need to talk with every person one by one – both you and person, who wants your service will receive email notifications to remind about their reservation.

Jetpack is a plugin created by Automattic (WordPress official company) and it adds lots of powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users including customization, traffic, mobile, content, and performance tools.

This WordPress plugin will help you import the data from one WordPress installation to another. You can import posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, authors and more to WordPress export file. With more than one million active installs, this plugin is proving to be useful for many.

This plugin will add more functionality to visual post and page editor. With TinyMCE you will be able to create tables, search and replace within editor, set font family, font size and many more. With more than one million active installs TinyMCE is a very useful plugin to use when you want to customize pages and posts more than available by default.

WordPress Plugins For Easy Social Sharing

When you spend a lot of time writing a blog post or creating a landing page, you want people to be able to share it. Here are several social sharing WordPress plugins to help your readers share your hard work.

While this social sharing WordPress plugin doesn’t add a direct social sharing option, it does let your readers connect with you outside of your site. There are a lot of people who may comment on Twitter but not say a word to you in the comment section.

There is always a cost to having a site. Even if that cost is just a web host, the money needs to come from somewhere. Respond is a dual purpose social sharing WordPress plugin packaging social sharing with possible revenue. You will need to sign up for an account with them and let them check out your site before you can start earning though.

When you are marketing anything, there is a good chance you will want to track what you are doing to make sure your efforts aren’t wasted. Trackable Social Share Icons is a good place to start tracking how people are sharing your site. One feature here that differentiates Trackable Social Share Icons is it links to Google Analytics.

Google+ is growing like crazy and shouldn’t be overlooked. If your audience is there, it is a good idea to give them a way to share. Add Google +1 lets you add the +1 button to the location of your choosing with a bit of code, or by setting the default location and size.

This sidebar widget lets you have a ton of different social icons in your WordPress Sidebar. Many times, if people don’t see the social site they want to share on, they don’t dig any farther than a glance to find it.

Follow Me is one of those icons that stick to the side of the page and stays in the same spot as you scroll up and down the page. At the time of this writing, there are 43 different social sites you can ask people to follow you on. Some sites are not your normal choices like Blip.fm and Mahalo.

If you can’t track something, it never happened. Tracking the reach you have on social networks is a must these days. Social Metrics is a social plugin for WordPress that tracks your awesomeness on these sites. You can see how many people are sharing your information and who they are. If they are already talking about you, don’t you think you may want to see what they are talking about and maybe add your 2 cents?

Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins for Easy Customer Access

If you have a online store or you offer services that sometimes need answers right away these plugins are a must. Even if you don’t have such sell such things, now days is a good addition to your website. As we all know, we all appreciate a responsive business.

Bankcle Chat is a WordPress plugin that provides a reliable, highly customizable, and economical platform for live chat. Besides giving live support to customers, it also keeps you updated regarding your site visitor activity and tracking.

You can also view the demographic and technical information of visitors. Bankcle can be easily integrated and configured, and automatically activates the free plan for your own account.

This WordPress plugin is one of the fastest live chat services available. ClickDesk allows the web visitors to click to call and voice chat with you (website owner) directly from the browser. Visitors can also dial the local access numbers available in 40+ countries.

You can manage your emails and offline chats with new integrated help desk. Agents can answer live chats and calls from online agent panel through Google Talk and Skype.

This plugin allows you to embed the Chatblazer application to chat on a WordPress page. You can post with an easy to use shortcode. You can host your own chatroom on your blog for interacting with your audience.

It has an easy-to-use interface that allows users to video chat, chat by sending instant messages, and share all types of media.

This plugin is highly flexible and supports and rooms, moderators, private messages, and public and private video chat, etc. It is BuddyPress-compatible, and automatically adds the avatars to user profiles in the video chat. It is simple to install and compatible with all search engines.

Flexy talk plugin allows you to get started with chatting to the Facebook fans and site visitors. You can easily do it from any device, including the mobile and tablets, etc. You can create a free account and enjoy unlimited chats with your visitors.

This is a multi-channel communication platform for the websites. This plugin can be used to assist customers during their visit, provide support, and answer questions. There is no coding skill required for it.

This plugin will enable Callback, VoIP, and Video on your website. Also, it includes fully customizable graphics and real time analytics.

This plugin allows you to chat with your visitors with a clean and easy to use interface. You can respond to chats from your iPhone, or Android device. You can also enable the proactive chat to trigger live chat automatically with visitor after some defined seconds.

This plugin lets you easily add beautiful live chat to your site or blog. You can handle all the live chats, emails, tickets, Facebook and Twitter feeds. You can easily modify the look and feel of this plugin with custom CSS, logos, and messages.

With this chat plugin, you can bring two-way chat to your website. You can host your own live sessions, interact with your visitors and boost your sales without taking help from third party JavaScript or other codes.

Chat plugin allows you to add a site wide-chat window in the bottom corner of your site. You can also add chat to any blog post or page, and answer support questions.

Live Chat plugin is a simple great plugin, that lets you chat with your potential customers or visitors of the site. Live chat is a great marketing tool, because you can address visitor issues right before they are making decision. You’ll get up to 30% more sales by actively using this tool and having it on your landing page. Check out the live preview.

This plugin is fully featured real-time chat for your WordPress website. This plugin has a window-based client out of the box. Without having to visit the admin interface, you will be notified from your Windows tray from where you can start chatting straight away.

Chat X answers the support questions, and solves the technical problems and product defects on your website easily. You can easily customize your chat skin, and change the colors to fit your website look and feel. The plugin runs on Firebase technology to make your chat faster and reliable.

Features are:

50 users can chat at one time

SSL support

More than one operator can reply the same user’s question

The plugin will cost you US$24.

Back to you…

What are your favorite WordPress plugins, you have on every WordPress website you launch? Did I miss any great plugins?

Conclusion

Plugins allows your blog or website be more effective and functional. The list that I provided are premium plugins that will surely worth every money you’ll spend with it. Since they are premium, the full features will be utilized compared to the free ones. So get them now and let your WordPress site rock!

Slider Revolution and Layer slider are absolutely amazing, its incredible how much flexibility and freedom both of these plugins provide.

“Navaneeth”There is no one plugin to increase your site speed, there are however multiple ways to significantly increase your site speed. For example Gzip compression and leverage browser caching will increase your speed by 30 percent(may be more). Check out this article, Speed up WordPress